# brede
## English
### Etymology

A variant of braid.

### Noun

brede (plural bredes) (obsolete)
* Ornamental embroidery.
** 1746, William Collins, “Ode to Evening”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):[…] while now the bright-hair'd Sun / Sits in yon western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, / With Brede ethereal wove
** 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12:The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede; […]
** 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part VI”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 127:So those two foes above my fallen life, / With brow to brow like night and evening mixt / Their dark and gray, while Psyche ever stole / A little nearer, till the babe that by us, / Half-lapt in glowing gauze and golden brede, / Lay like a new-fall’n meteor on the grass, […]
* A braid.

#### Derived terms

* brede-stitch

### References

* ↑ “brede, n.$^3$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* Breed, berde, breed, rebed

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /breːðə/, [ˈb̥ʁæðð̩]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse breiða, from Proto-Germanic *braidijaną (“to broaden”).

#### Verb

brede (past tense bredte, past participle)
* (transitive) to spread
* (reflexive, intransitive) to spread

##### Derived terms

* brede ud
* udbrede

#### References

* “brede” in Den Danske Ordbog

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

brede
* definite singular of bred
* plural of bred

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbreː.də/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bre‧de
* Rhymes: -eːdə
* Homophone: Breede

### Adjective

brede
* inflection of breed:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** plural attributive

### Anagrams

* breed

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English brǣde, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *brādō, from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”). Doublet of brawne.

#### Alternative forms

* bræde, bræd (early)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/

#### Noun

brede (plural bredes)
* (collectively) (Pieces of) roasted meat.
* (specifically) A piece of roasted meat.
    Synonym: hastelet
* (hunting) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.
    Synonym: hastelet

##### Derived terms

* breden (“to grill”)

##### Descendants

* Scots: brede

##### References

* “brēde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* David Scott-Macnab (2010) “The Medieval Boar and its Haslets”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎, volume 111, number 3, Modern Language Society, pages 355-366

### Etymology 2

From the oblique cases of Old English bred, from Proto-West Germanic *bred, from Proto-Germanic *bredą.

#### Alternative forms

* bræde (early)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/, /ˈbrɛd(ə)/

#### Noun

brede (plural bredes)
* board, slab
* tablet (small board with writing)

##### Derived terms

* moldebred
* paxbrede

##### Descendants

* Scots: bred

##### References

* “brēd, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

From Old English brǣdu, brǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *braidī, from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄.

#### Alternative forms

* breed, breede, breide
* bræde, breade (early)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbrɛːd(ə)/

#### Noun

brede (uncountable)
* breadth (measure of how wide something is):
** A piece of fabric of standard width.
** (geometry) A circle's diameter.
* extent (space to which something extends):
** The total extent of a surface or object.
** (figurative) The extent or totality of one's feelings.

##### Derived terms

* breden (“to spread”)
* bredthe
* hondbrede
* weybrede

##### Descendants

* English: bread (“breadth”) (dialectal)
* Scots: brede, breid

##### References

* “brēde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

brede
* Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

brede
* Alternative form of breid

### Etymology 6
#### Noun

brede
* Alternative form of brerd

### Etymology 7
#### Verb

brede
* Alternative form of breden (“to grill”)

### Etymology 8
#### Verb

brede
* Alternative form of breden (“to spread”)

### Etymology 9
#### Verb

brede
* Alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

### Etymology 10
#### Verb

brede
* Alternative form of breiden

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

brede
* definite singular of bred
* plural of bred

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

brede m (definite singular breden, indefinite plural bredar, definite plural bredane)
* Alternative form of bre

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbre.de/

### Noun

brede
* dative singular of bred

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English bread.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbre.de/

### Noun

brede
* bread

#### Derived terms

* bredebon (“breadfruit tree”)
* bredefutu (“flat feet”)

#### Descendants

* Aukan: beele
* Saramaccan: bëë́ë
* → Kari'na: perere

### References

* Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “brede”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary

## Swedish
### Adjective

brede
* definite natural masculine singular of bred

### Anagrams

* beder, bered